Ranunculus acris vs crowfoot

Ranunculus acris and crowfoot both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Ranunculus acris	Yes	No	No	No
crowfoot	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, crowfoot is a hypernym of Ranunculus acris; that is, crowfoot is a word with a broader meaning than Ranunculus acris:

Ranunculus acris: perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America
crowfoot: any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus

Other hypernyms of Ranunculus acris include butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, goldcup, kingcup.

Ranunculus acris (noun)	crowfoot (noun)
perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America	any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus